In plain words
But we have no need to attain Him. The very coming of this birth is as good as having attained God! ‘Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ.’ Every form that has taken on the human shape is the very form of God! ‘Daivaṃ mānuṣarūpeṇā.’ So we do not need to attain God as something apart. It is most essential to recognise the truth that God is right within us, and to act on it. Then where is God? He is not in some place somewhere outside. He is not in temples. He is not in the holy shrines. He is not at the holy waters. The place where God dwells is one alone! That is the place of the heart. That itself is God. ‘Īśāvāsyamidaṃ sarvaṃjagat’, ‘Īśvaras sarvabhūtānāṃ’: in all beings Divinity shines, the divine itself. To forget the God who is in such a heart and go running off, thinking He is somewhere else, is great Ajñāna indeed! God is nearer to you than anything at all. But we must do the work that pleases God. Whoever it is you serve, you must regard it as service to God. That is why the Upaniṣads said, ‘Sarvajīva namaskāraḥ keśavaṃ pratigacchati.’ Whoever it is we bow to, it is as though we bowed to God. Not only that. They also said, ‘Sarvajīva tiraskāraḥ keśavaṃ pratigacchati.’ Good or bad, it lies within the very fruit of our actions.
The fruit of good and bad comes to us only through our actions
We think of things as sin and merit.
Sin and merit are not in some foreign land; they cling to the deeds one does; plant a neem seed and it does not become a wood-apple tree; from the fruit of karma comes birth.
Each and every thing goes along with our actions themselves. The fruit of good and bad is gained only through our actions. We must do good actions and try to recognise Divinity. For the sake of doing such good actions, today we carry on sādhanas of many kinds.